Friday, May 12, 2017
THE WISDOM OF RAV KATSCHKE: A 100-WORD MIDRASH
“They’re gonna do what?!”
The little village of Katzenellenbogen-affen-Yam was barely more than a speck on the map, but its minuscule size belied the extreme piety of its inhabitants. Yet now, as the Day of Atonement approached, they were faced with a most serious religious problem.
For reasons known only unto the Eternal One, a plague had descended upon the shtetl’s chickens, wiping them all out. Not a single pullet was left with which the villagers could purge their sins by performing the ancient ritual of sh’logn kapoyres.
The village rabbi consulted his dusty tomes and found a solution. “Use a duck,” he announced.
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